The Bharatiya Janata Party has released its first list of 182 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. PM Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi, while BJP president Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar. Union home minister Rajnath Singh will contest the elections from Lucknow with Nitin Gadkari contesting from Nagpur.........

An Army soldier was killed and four others were injured when Pakistan Army violated the ceasefire by resorting to heavy mortar shelling and firing along the LoC in Rajouri district. Pakistani troops have violated the ceasefire over 110 times along the LoC since January.........

Former India hockey skipper Sardar Singh was named a member in the Standing Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) during the 38th General Assembly in Bangkok in early March. The panel, of which Sardar is a member of, will have 10 members and are nominated for four years from 2019 to 2023.........

28-year-old Gedela Gyana Sagar, known as Chaitanya, son of an RTC bus conductor (retired) and a student of CA final year, is contesting the present elections on the Jana Sena Party ticket from Pathapatnam Assembly constituency.........

India’s Reliance Industries, operator of the world’s biggest refining complex, has turned to selling fuels to Venezuela from India and Europe to circumvent sanctions that bar U.S.-based companies from dealing with state-run PDVSA.........

Savi Sidhu, an actor who had featured in minor roles in many celebrated Bollywood films, and is currently employed as a watchman at a building in Mumbai's Parel slammed Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi for using “foul language” for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.........

State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Rajnish Kumar said that all lenders have been working on a resolution plan to bail out the debt-laden Jet Airways and sending it to bankruptcy is the last option.........

Nearly 3 crore casual labourers working in farms across rural India were rendered jobless between 2011-12 and 2017-18, a drop of more than 40%, citing a survey by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO).........

Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, arrested by Scotland Yard on behalf of the Indian authorities, was in possession of three passports, it emerged when he was produced before the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London.........

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced an immediate ban on the sale of assault rifles and semi-automatics in a muscular response to the Christchurch terror attack that killed 50 people.........

The United States has asked Pakistan to take sustained, verifiable and irreversible action against the perpetrators of terrorism, while warning the country that another terror attack on India will prove to be “extremely problematic”.........

Three Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed after a colleague allegedly fired at them after an altercation at their camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur. The constable who shot at his colleagues has been identified as Ajit Kumar.........

A special court acquitted former RSS activist Swami Aseemanand and three others in the Samjhauta train blast case that left 68 people dead in 2007. Apart from Aseemanand, the other acquitted are Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan and Rajinder Chaudhary. ........

The BJP-led government in Goa proved its majority winning the floor test in the state assembly. The Pramod Sawant government got the support of 20 MLAs in the assembly, whose strength has reduced from 40 to 36.........